2008/10/06 Amsterdam
Something new
The seven deadly sins
More about restaurants in Amsterdam and its surroundings: last night my company convinced me to try something new. We ended up in a place called “Envy”.
The food consisted of amuse-gueules, which is a beautiful concept if only all the amuse-gueules were tasteful.
The desserts were satisfying, the bresaola was terrific, and the service was amusing: we got food meant for another table and we ate it, we ordered a testing menu so we had no clue what food was meant for us and what food was meant for our neighbors.
The disadvantage of this restaurant is that you might be forced to eat at a bar. I prefer tables when I’m not dining alone. The sushi-bar is an exception to this rule. Sometimes it is better to look at fresh fish than at your companion.
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Arnon
Only someone dissapointed in love would write such a thing.Yesterday I went to a restaurant with my mother and her companion. This was a place that serves snacks on weekdays, and "fine dining" in the weekends. We all agreed that the food was uninspired and lacked taste. Besides, the waiters lacked in experience, but that's hardly an onbstacle
Tip
A fine restaurant with lots of amuse-gueules: Marcus in Deerlijk.Cecile, are you a prophet, a fortune teller, a witch maybe and if so would you be so kind to tell me all about the weather next week or are you just an amateur nutcase, this of course in a not dangerous way?
Dynamic sushi
Last summer i was in Northern-China with my female friend. Sushi is her favorite dish. While traveling I took her to sushibars more often than was good for me. It was a way of avoiding struggles and arguments and keeping her happy. I remember one night in Beijing. The sushibar had a mini-railway track where plates of sushi went by in on-going motion. It gave some dynamics to the atmosphere.Alex,
One can never visit sushi-bars too often. And I remember somebody who said not to care about a restaurants atmosphere; only the food mattered to him ;)Dear Strasse,
Do you believe in prophets, fortune tellers and/or witches?yours,
Eric
Eric
I try to believe in anything that is not human, smurfs for instance.Cecile
It is clear that you don't love fresh fish, do you?Eva
Being forced to eat at the bar is something that belongs to "the atmosphere" of the restaurant?Dear Strasse,
Why?Eric
Eric
Since you seem to love the Socrates way : why should anyone still believe in mankind? Anyone?My favourite fish to believe in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Mask_Replica
Arnon
You're such a tease.Cecile
You must be kidding.Arnon
Would I ever joke about love?Eric
Why believe in mankind? Do you know anyone else who can do my dry-cleaning? To say nothing of Chartres, Bach, Telex...I meant Strasse
In above comment.Needing is not the same as believing.
Dear Strasse,
I seem to love the Socrates way.Ok; if you say so.
But my question was: why do you try to to believe in anything that is not human, smurfs for instance?
Nobody said anything about believing in mankind.....
sincerely yours,
Eric
Eric
Humans are not only not worth believing in, they are also to predictable, and if most people may believe in some kind of god why can't I in the Marsipulami, or in my dog, they both gives a lot of joy, something you can rarely say about mankind.Dear Strasse,
could you give an example of the joy you get from the Marsipulami?And if mankind -of which you are a part- gives you so little joy,
why not kill yourself?
with the best wishes,
Eric
Cecile
I don't know you.Eric
Killing myself because of other people, you must be joking.I'm not a big fan of suicide but the day I'm not enjoying my life anymore (wich has certainly nothing to do with other people, remember Sartre) I 'll find something, don't worry.
Concerning the marsupilami, sing with it and you'll have fun, a far underestimated feeling.
@Arnon - a friend of mine who was going through something serious (= life threatening) insisted on going to Envy on one particularly oppressing evening in light of her situation. I hated the place, she loved it.
Dear Strasse,
No, I don't mean to kill yourself because of other people, but because of yourself as being part of mankind.But obviously your a coward, which is ok.
A coward having fun with marsupilami's and smurf's.
Good luck with you enjoying your life.
yours,
Eric
Eric
Do you think that people who don't kill themselves are cowards or just me? (btw, I don't consider being called a coward as an insult)Dear Strasse,
You didn't understand it.When you detest mankind so much: why not make the world a better place.
yours,
Eric
Ps. If you can read, you could see that calling you a coward wasn't an insult.
Eric
It's my opinion that with a consciousness that isn't comatose (I know, we're not with that much) you can't like mankind, but you didn't answer my question (it's that much easier posing them than responding them) about that : should everyone with this comprehension commit suicide?And if not, are they cowards?I think there are other solutions (mankind won't be that much more agreeable without me, you make me to important), like trying to reform people or using them for your own good or avoiding them as much as possible or only live virtual.
Dear Strasse,
well at least your a funny guy.you say: "but you didn't answer my question ..."
what follows is a completely new question.
It must be your *nearly* comatose consciousness.
But probably you don't understand this either, so here we go:
your first question(s):
"Do you think that people who don't kill themselves are cowards or just me?"
my answer:
1. No I don't think that everybody who doesn't kill him or herself is a coward.
2. Yes, you are a coward.
your second question(s):
"should everyone with this comprehension [not liking mankind] commit suicide?And if not, are they cowards?"
my answer:
1. Yes, it would be a correct thing to do.
2. Yes they are.
Yours,
Eric
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